Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across … and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have … restricted standard analysis of the determinants of innovation to consideration of the role of firm characteristics. The authors …

moves away from the conventional focus on the obstacles (such as the lack of access to finance) that hinder firms'innovation … ability. The World Bank's Enterprise Survey is used first to estimate the return to firms'innovation across many developing … countries, in terms of sales and sales per worker. Then the return to innovation is compared across countries with different …

"is necessary but not sufficient for balanced growth. Parameter estimates were obtained for France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the …

It is so widely recognized that innovation is a key driver of economic growth that it is cliché to say so. This article … studies product innovation by firms with data from 68 countries, covering more than 25,000 firms in eight manufacturing … sectors. The author assesses the predictions of inter-disciplinary research on innovation by firms. The econometric evidence …

The author provides a conceptual framework for approaching the promotion of technological innovation and its diffusion … in developing countries. Innovation climates in developing countries are, by nature, problematic, characterized by poor … the promotion of innovation. The latter should be understood as the diffusion of technologies-and related practices …